Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis